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Reclaiming pleasure after cancer

A project about bodies, sexuality and creativity after a cancer diagnosis

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A shift in perspective

And a major PhD milestone

Life vs quality of life

The gaps and omissions in cancer research

Writing as thinking

On process and progress

When dead ends lead you somewhere

It's all just part of the process

Dying for Sex

On breaking the taboos of pleasure and cancer

On 'presenting well'

The perils of taking things at face value

I contain multitudes

Navigating my insider-outsider place as a researcher

Who gets to be a survivor?

On the problems and questions that come with the term 'cancer survivor'

Biosocial selfhood

The power of collective care in remaking the self after cancer

Beautiful disobedient bodies

A Wellcome Collection exhibition and Emma Dabiri's book on beauty

The embodied self in cancer

Understandings of selfhood and the biographical disruption of diagnosis

Book: Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us

Elegiac politics from S. Lochlann Jain

Aims & Methods

PhD update: making progress, finessing focus

Searching for Pleasure

... in the cancer survivorship literature

Film: Trans Dudes with Lady Cancer

Thoughts from a screening and online Q&A

Exhibition: Amor veneris: a journey into female sexual pleasure

Exhibition in Lisbon at the Museu Pedagógico de Sexo

Research methods

An update on how I plan to carry out my fieldwork

Exhibition: Cancer Revolution at the Science Museum

Identifying gaps in the research and narrative

Book: Unbearable Weight. Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body by Susan Bordo

Lessons from the medicalisation of anorexia

Exhibition: Objects of Desire: surrealism, sex and death

Notes from the exhibition at London's Design Museum